NEWPORT – Rabbi Marc Mandel of the Touro Synagogue introduced me to the minyan as “Mike, a reporter.” I felt a bit like Clark Kent on an assignment for the Daily Planet.
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MIKE FINK
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10/28/16
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Richard Kodner has been hired as the next director of Camp JORI in Wakefield. The announcement was made in a letter to parents Oct. 14.
Kodner comes to JORI from the St. Louis area, where he …
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10/28/16
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(Kveller via JTA) – At my daughter’s recent Bat Mitzvah, hundreds of people spread out to form a large circle and, together, carefully hold a completely unrolled Torah …
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JULIE WEINER
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10/28/16
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(Kveller via JTA) – I didn’t grow up in a very religious home. That said, my parents gave me the option to attend Hebrew school and have a Bat mitzvah.
My friends were …
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STACEY STEINHART
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10/28/16
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JERUSALEM – Dozens of orphans of fallen Israeli soldiers, and the son of an American serviceman who died in Afghanistan, celebrated their bar and bat mitzvahs in …
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SAM SOKOL
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10/28/16
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I remember it like it was yesterday, watching my 74-year-old father lying in a hospital bed, totally incapacitated as the result of a stroke. Breathing was the only thing he was able to manage …
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ERIN MINIOR
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10/28/16
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A little bird told me that there has been a mild level of confusion in pockets of Rhode Island’s Jewish community for the past few months. This confusion, from what I understand, stemmed from …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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10/28/16
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Are you going to participate in the Jewish community reading program? This new initiative encourages members of the greater Rhode Island Jewish community to read a single book of his/her choice in …
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LARRY KATZ
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10/28/16
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Gratitude. That’s the word I most often associate with the holiday of Sukkot , and this year there was something else, something enormous, to be thankful for: After seven years of …
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NOEL RUBINTON
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10/28/16
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A recreational pickleball league is making its debut at the Dwares Jewish Community Center’s fitness center this winter.
Pickleball is a relatively new sport that combines elements of …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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10/28/16
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